In order to help students improve their writing, support and encouragement must be given.
Scrutinizing the nitty-gritty isn't helpful and will put students off from writing
Positive mind-set a must
"I will look for the good. I will go with anticipation to may students' writing"
When a teacher response to a paper, it should be a shared response
"When you respond, remember your humanity"!!!!
Many know how to correct for grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation, but responding to content is more demanding. individualized comments that are intended to give further direction to a paper
The role of the responder changes as the student develops as a writer.
"To promote fluency, accentuate the positive" let the student know there are interesting parts to their writing
To encourage control in writing, have students make a list of characteristics of skilled writers
Responding to skilled writers can require the teacher to act like a critic, but a critic with a purpose to polish and improve the existing work.
Teach students how to respond -be very specific to newly developing responders and teach them to be kind
Helping Circle contained the helpful idea of the teacher handing out a piece of writing he/she did and ask the students for feedback. Then they can be guided into responding
*Respond to published writing
The goal of the responder is to help the student figure out what they want to say and how to do it.
Teachers need to be knowledgeable about how to respond to students' writing in order to help students learn how to write.
The writing process can be a powerful, confidence building situation. In the same light, going about it the wrong way can be a very bad situation for a student. Writing is vulnerable and personal .
Scrutinizing the nitty-gritty isn't helpful and will put students off from writing
Positive mind-set a must
"I will look for the good. I will go with anticipation to may students' writing"
When a teacher response to a paper, it should be a shared response
"When you respond, remember your humanity"!!!!
Many know how to correct for grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation, but responding to content is more demanding. individualized comments that are intended to give further direction to a paper
The role of the responder changes as the student develops as a writer.
"To promote fluency, accentuate the positive" let the student know there are interesting parts to their writing
To encourage control in writing, have students make a list of characteristics of skilled writers
Responding to skilled writers can require the teacher to act like a critic, but a critic with a purpose to polish and improve the existing work.
Teach students how to respond -be very specific to newly developing responders and teach them to be kind
- Helping Circle contained the helpful idea of the teacher handing out a piece of writing he/she did and ask the students for feedback. Then they can be guided into responding
*Respond to published writingThe goal of the responder is to help the student figure out what they want to say and how to do it.
Teachers need to be knowledgeable about how to respond to students' writing in order to help students learn how to write.
The writing process can be a powerful, confidence building situation. In the same light, going about it the wrong way can be a very bad situation for a student. Writing is vulnerable and personal .